Egypt
Heritage Key (Owen Jarus)
- New Archive Space Takes Shape At Ees
Egypt Exploration Society With some great photos. For the last few months the new archive space in no. 4 Doughty Mews has slowly been taking shape. The room in question was formerly the kitchen of Professor Caminos who lived at no. 4 until his death...
- Graffiti Vandalism At Abydos
Al Masry Al Youm (Fathya el-Dakhakhni) With photo. A group of tourists are believed to have drawn red Stars of David on the walls of the Seti I ruins in the Abydos area of Sohag Governorate. Temple officials said the defacements were new but Secretary-General...
- Amice Calverley, The Ees, And The Temple Of Sety I At Abydos
Egypt Exploration Society With some gorgeous b&w photos from the 1920s. The Heritage Key article mentioned below dates to early February. A fascinating article on Amice Calverley, who worked for the Society in the temple of Sety I at Abydos, has just...
- Egyptian Objects Before Egyptology
Brooklyn Museum (Tom Hardwick) My work in the Wilbour Library involves keeping an eye out for books the Library needs, and carrying out archival research into the history of the Egyptian collections in support of the Library’s educational mission. In...
- Interpretations Of Edfu
Al Masry Al Youm (Andrew Bossone) For the first time, a contemporary exhibit is being displayed at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The exhibit features drawings from the Edfu temple that few people ever get to see. Spanish artists and professors Assunción...
Egypt
Feature: Adventures of Amice Mary Calverley
Heritage Key (Owen Jarus)
There will never be another archaeologist like Amice Mary Calverley. She was a plane-flying, war-filming, desert-living Egyptologist, who created stunning drawings of the Temple of Seti I at Abydos.
With the onset of World War II she found herself fighting in a propaganda war against the Axis. However, one of the people who edited her Seti work, Egyptologist Hermann Junker, was aiding the Nazis. He did this even as he was still editing Calverley's work!
Born in Chelsea, London, UK in 1896, her drawings, financed by John Rockefeller Jr., were published in four oversized colour volumes. Her drawings were so good that her editors could find hieroglyphic errors made by the ancient Egyptians, but scarcely one made by her.
To say she lived an adventurous life would be an understatement. For months at a time she lived at Abydos in a house more than 10 kilometres from the nearest town. She took to shooting ethnographic videos of the people in the area, before being declared persona non grata in Egypt, in 1948, after her work rankled the Egyptian government.
She then went to Greece where she shot film of the Greek Civil War and nursed the wounded during the pivotal Battle of Gramos in 1949. The Greeks were so impressed by her that they gave her a commando badge, something she is said to have valued deeply.
And in case you haven’t noticed – she was a she! She did all this between the 1920s and 1950s - a time when both Western and Egyptian society were still fairly patriarchal.
- New Archive Space Takes Shape At Ees
Egypt Exploration Society With some great photos. For the last few months the new archive space in no. 4 Doughty Mews has slowly been taking shape. The room in question was formerly the kitchen of Professor Caminos who lived at no. 4 until his death...
- Graffiti Vandalism At Abydos
Al Masry Al Youm (Fathya el-Dakhakhni) With photo. A group of tourists are believed to have drawn red Stars of David on the walls of the Seti I ruins in the Abydos area of Sohag Governorate. Temple officials said the defacements were new but Secretary-General...
- Amice Calverley, The Ees, And The Temple Of Sety I At Abydos
Egypt Exploration Society With some gorgeous b&w photos from the 1920s. The Heritage Key article mentioned below dates to early February. A fascinating article on Amice Calverley, who worked for the Society in the temple of Sety I at Abydos, has just...
- Egyptian Objects Before Egyptology
Brooklyn Museum (Tom Hardwick) My work in the Wilbour Library involves keeping an eye out for books the Library needs, and carrying out archival research into the history of the Egyptian collections in support of the Library’s educational mission. In...
- Interpretations Of Edfu
Al Masry Al Youm (Andrew Bossone) For the first time, a contemporary exhibit is being displayed at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The exhibit features drawings from the Edfu temple that few people ever get to see. Spanish artists and professors Assunción...